Oral history interview with Roger V. Wilson, 1974.

Biographical Note

General manager.

Scope and Contents

Education, teaching jobs; work at Western Electric Company, Chicago in the 1920s; development work for Continental Can on vacuum and gas packing; evolution of customer research and technical services; rivalry with American Can; customer claims, settlements; company integrity and morale; Alaskan canneries.

Subjects

• Continental Can Company.
• Customer services.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Manufacturing processes.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Wilson, Roger V.--Interviews.